Good Afternoon Mike, It appears that you did not read and comprehend the automated message so I will help explain it more broken down for you.Your first email was sent on 03/31/2023 which then started the 5 business day window for us to respond.

It was a lot of work up front but now a lot is automated. 

He focuses a lot on automation & software to get more deals.

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I can have them just setup an ACH for the monthly payments, etc...but I feel like this would be easier with some automation, and there just must be something that's already setup for this.

I recommend self managing as it is actually not much work and automations are probably on their way to make it easier.

Vrbo has free price automation software.I use Excel for book keeping.I don't pay for any third party software, not really needed on 1 or 2 properties.I charge a little extra for cleaning fee than actual cleaning costs.

But I have many automations set up and have very detailed financial statements I generate every month so it definitely took me a few months to get the hang of it.

Their services from A to Z, automate everything like nothing else I've seen.

It is a fairly automated process for them